A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.